Milk-top extractor.



PATENTED JULY 21, 1908.

H. BARRY. MILK TOP EXTRAGTOR.

' APIfLIOATION FILED MAY 25,1901.

' T 0 all whom "it may concern:

UNITED erase i err FFICE.

HENRY BARRY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ILK-Tor ix'rnacron.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Fatented July 21, 1908.

Application filed m 19073 Serial *No. 375,723.

Be it known, that I, HENRY BAnnYfa citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented anew and useful Milk-Top Extractor, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in milk top extractors.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of. milk top extractors, andto rovide a simple, efficient and reliable mill? strength and durability, adapted tobe easily and cheaply manufactured of wire and sheet metal for use as an advertising novelty, and capable of quickly removing the top of a milk bottle without splashing the contents thereof;

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in'the construction and novel combination of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended; it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size and minor details of construction, within the scope of the claims, may be resort w out departing from the spirit or s any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawing-Figure 1 is a side elevation of a milk top extractor, constructed in. accordance with this invention and shown i applied to the upper portion of a milk bottle,

the milk bottle being in section. Fig. 2 is an elevation, showing the other side of the milk top extractor. Fig. 3-is a transverse sectional view'on the line x-x of Fig. 1.. Fig. 4 is an elevation of a milk top extractor, illustrating a modification of the invention and shown applied to the uppenportion-ofthe milk bottle, the latter being in section. Fig.6 is a perspective view of the milk top extractor, shown in Fig. 4.

Like numerals of reference designate cor- I responding parts in all the figures of the drawing 1 designates a milk top extractor, embodying a lever constructed of wire and consisting of a handle loop 2, having an inclined shank 3, a substantially elliptical heel 4,

forming a rolongation of the shank 3, and a downward y and forwardly extending prong 5, arranged at an angle to the heel, and extending from the shank in the opposite direction from the heel 4 at the top thereof.

top extractor of great of the drawing.

' I .l The handle loop the heel and the prong are constructed of a single piece of wire, which is coiled to form a handleloop, and the latter, which is circular, is adapted to receive a head or button 6 of sheet metal to enable the device to be used as an advertising novelty. posed of a front plate or disk7 anda back plate or disk 8, both constructed of sheet metal and connected at their edges. The periphery of the front plate is preferably spun over the periphery of the back plate,

The head or button is comand the latteris provided at its inner face with an annular groove 9 to receive the handle loop 2, which is interposed between so to eifiable it to readily pierce a milk top 11. Thebottom or outer portion of the heel is rounded to rovide. a rounded bearing portionfor ena ling the milk top extractor to be fulcruined on a milk top. at one side of a milk bottle 12, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 1

The prong 5 milk top at theopposite side of the center thereof, and when the lever is swung upward, the prong is adapted to lift that side of the milk top uniform y from the bottle, while the opposite portionof the milk to is held by the heel. This will enable the milk top to be easily and quickly removed from the milk I bottle, without splashing any of the contents of the latter.

In Figs. 4 and 5 of the drawing is illussl at theengaging end 10, and is point- I engages the trated a milk top extractor 13, constructed I of a single piece of sheet metal, and consisting of an enlarged handle portion 14, rovided with an inclined shank 15, a hoe 16 and a prong 17. The heel, which forms a prolongation of the shank, is a proximately e liptical, and presents a'roun ed bearing edge or surface to'the bottle for fulcruming the device thereon and for holding one side of the milk top 18. The prong extends downwardly at an inclination in the opposite dicurved to enable it to readily pierce the mi k top 18 and lift the same from the bottle.

In each form of the device, the milk top extractor presents a substantially elliptical heel or fulcrum to the milk top at one side of the milk bottle, and the prong engages the' milk to at a point diametrically op osite the hee The milk to is extracted liy an upward movement of t e handle of the dev1ce, which rocks on the fulcrum or heel. This lifts one side of the milk top 'clear of the bottle, and enables the milk top to be removed without splashing the contents of the bottle.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is I 1. A milk top extractor comprising a bandle having a shank, a heel extending down- ,wardly from theshank and arranged to bear against a milk top and also against the inner side of the mouth of a milkbottle, and a prong extending from the shankin the opposite direction from the heel and arranged 'to pierce the milk top at one side of the center and lift the said top.

2. A milk top extractor comprising a handle having an inclined shank, an inclined heel extending downwardly from and form ing a prolongation ofthe shank and arranged to bear against the inner side of the mouth of a milk bottle and engage the milk top at one .side of the center thereof, and an o positely inclinedprong arranged at an ang e to the heel and piercing the milk top at the opposite side of the center, whereby the movement of the lever to-liftthe milk top will operate I to hold the heel down'on the same.

3. A milk top extractor comprising a handle, an inclined substantially elliptical heel extending downwardly therefrom and ar ranged to present a rounded edge or face to the mouth of a milk bottle at one side thereof and simultaneously engage the milk top, and a downwardly extending prong arranged at an angle to the heel and adapted to pierce the milk top at the opposite side of the center thereof from the point where'the milk top is engaged by the heel.

4. A milk toga extractor consisting of a lever constructe of a single piece of wire and comprising a substantially circular handle loop rovided with an inclined shank, a substantially elliptical fulcrumed loop formed by extending the shank downwardly and curvin the wire upwardly and inwardly to the sai shank, and an inclinedprong consisting of an extension of the top of the loop and arranged at an angle to thelatter.

5. A milk top extractor comprising a wire lever consisting of a handle loop having a downwardly inclined shank, a fulcrum' loop extending downwardly and outwardly from the lower end of the shank, and a prong ex-'.

tending from the shank in the opposite direcextending downwardly and outwardly fromthe lower end of theshank, and a prong ex-;

tending from the shank in the opposite directionfrom the loop, and a button mounted on the handle loop and forming a handle and com o sed of. front and back disks or plates,

the ack disk or plate being provided with an interiorly arranged-annular groove toretween the front an back plates.

7.- A milk top extractor comprising a handie, a heel extending downwardly therefrom and arranged to bear against the mouth of a ceive the handle loo' which is interposed bemilk bottle at one'side thereof and simulta- 7 neously engage the milk top, and a downwardly extending prong arranged at an angle to the heel and adapted to ierce the milk top at the opposite side oft e center thereof from the point where the milk t is gm gaged y the heel.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my own, I- have heretoafiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

' I -HENRY BARRY.

Witnesses:

.HARRY A. FLECK;

ROBERT REID. 

